gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » trends http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:29:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Web Trend Mapshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/28/web-trend-maps/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/28/web-trend-maps/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:24:40 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=17821 The Web Trend Map is a service that computes web trends from trustworthy sources from the stream of information on today’s Internet. It does so by filtering links posted from that stream several times to come up with those trends in the end. These filters begin by the links that are posted on the Internet. These links are then again filtered by the users of Web Trend Maps and then analyzed to find out trends from those user links.

Here is a visual representation of the process:

web trends map

And here how it looks like on the homepage:

web trend map

The service is currently in private beta with a few invites still available on the site for a price. Apparently only users who buy the Web Trend Poster for $49 can apply for a private beta invitation on the website. It is likely that this is going to change in the future. Users with an account can create their own maps. Everyone else is currently left with the information that are posted on the homepage of the service.

A click on any icon on the homepage will display trends posted by that specific user or website. Each link includes a small preview and the option to open the website to retrieve additional information about the topic. Interested users can visit the Web Trend Map website by following this link. (thanks Jojo for sending in that tip)

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